During a press conference held on June 10, 2009 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, John Fees, CEO McDermott International, introduced the mPowerTM modular reactor and described its potential for making a positive impact on American job creation, manufacturing strength, and clean energy development.
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The United Kingdom (UK) equivalent of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Apparently that organization is under some of the same pressures as the NRC; it’s staff needs to expand to begin the process of reviewing new designs in a timely manner. As in the US, it has…
I just received the July 25, 2005 edition of Fortune Magazine. It has a number of interesting articles in it, but the subject I want to talk about is framed by the advertisements that show up on the inside front cover and on the back cover – two of the most expensive advertising locations in…
According to the BBC, – http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4130532.stm – oil prices in Asia have reached $62.69 per barrel on August 8, 2005. Though there will be plenty of commentators that minimize the impact of that very high price by referring to the inflation adjusted prices from the early 1980s, the fact remains that oil prices are nearly…
My friend, David Bradish at NEI Nuclear Notes pointed out a well written essay by Shannon Love on Chicago Boyz titled Fantasy Energy. Here is a sample from that blog: I think it important to emphasize that we would need to move to nuclear energy even if we had an infinite supply of fossil fuels…
The web site titled This is North Scotland published a short article about a recent Labor Party resolution favoring the construction of new nuclear power plants. The article stated that the engineering union Amicus and the National Union of Mineworkers support the notion that nuclear power must be included as part of a balanced energy…
This is a rant to share a communication frustration and to ask for assistance in figuring out a better way to tell what I think is an important thought about energy. Not quite 70 years ago, a small group of really bright people spent a few months stacking graphite bricks and lumps of uranium dioxide…
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